I chose to look at air pollution as it is a topic that effects almost all aspects of our life whether it’s health, environment etc. When looking into causes of air pollution i started to research the effects smoking and vaping have on our environment and decided that it would be one of my focus points for this project.

I looked at well known photographers such as Mandy Barker and Edward Burtinsky for inspiration however my favourite work was made by a photographer called George Marazakis. His work focused a lot on images of factories omitting pollution into our atmosphere and the damage that causes so he became a big inspiration for my work in this project.

For my photoshoots I went on a walk and took pictures of cars and chimneys and then also recruited my brother (who vapes) to be photographed.

By focusing mainly on vaping and smoking it allowed the project to become something very well known to me as it is such a common thing to see and so it was interesting to photograph and delve into the damage that it is actually doing to the air. I used the smoke in my images to represent the air pollution produced by larger scale industrial factories and use it to represent other forms of air pollution which I wasn’t able to photograph due to not having access to them kind of large scale factories in jersey. However in my opinion they still delivered the point I intended them to despite being unable to reach large factories.

Overall I consider this project to have been quite successful as I managed to create some interesting outcomes however next time I think I should get a larger range of very different images so that I have more to work with.